Co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group and human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, has criticised President Muhammadu Buhari over his handling of the increasing spate of abductions in the country.
She spoke during an appearance on ChannelsTV on Friday while reacting to the abduction of students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State.
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Yesufu expressed that the primary responsibility of government is to protect lives, saying the President’s assurance to Nigerians about efforts being made to rescue all those who have been abducted “mean nothing”.
In a strongly worded statement on Friday night, Buhari had warned bandits that he would not succumb to threats and blackmail.
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He had also said that his government had the capacity to deal with them but has not taken drastic action to avoid a situation where captives are used as shields.
However, when she featured the programme, Yesufu said Nigerians are used to a president “whose words are meaningless”.
She stressed;
What I make of the statement is absolutely nothing. We are used to a president whose words mean nothing. He says one thing, and another thing happens.
The body language of President Muhammadu Buhari enables the terrorists. They know that we have an ineffective President and Commander-In-Chief, we have an incompetent one a clueless one, who does not even bother about what is happening in the country.
Yesterday we buried seven military officers, the best that we have, the nation was in mourning and the President was a few minutes away from where they were and the president didn’t even turn up, what does that signify? It Is high time we began to make serious demands on the president.
It is not in our place to give the way forward. His salaries are being paid for it, his needs are being taken care of. He was voted to give the way forward.
Yesufu was a strong member of #Bring Back Our Girls Movement, which was on the frontline of the campaign for the release of 200 female students abducted from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, in 2014.
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Up till dates, some of the students are still in captivity.
